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Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Company 


SPOKANE, WASHI 

W. G. DAVIDSON, Secretary JAY P. GRAVES 

H. B. FERRIS, Treasurer 


NGTON 


F. A. BLACKWELL 
F. LEWIS CLARK 
W. G. DAVIDSON 


A. KUHN 

WALDO G. PAINE 
W. G. GRAVES 


JAY P. GRAVES, President ^ ^ 

F. LEWIS CLARK, Vice-President (_) T 

F. A. BLACKWELL, Chairman of the Board 


The Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Company of Spokane is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Wash¬ 
ington, to own, construct and operate electric properties. It has acquired the holdings of the following properties: 


SPOKANE TRACTION COMPANY. 

An electric street railway, operating in the city of Spokane. 

COEUR D’ALENE &. SPOKANE RAILWAY COMPANY, LTD. 

An electric railway operating between Spokane, Washington, 
and Coeur d’Alene and Hayden Lake, Idaho. 

SPOKANE TERMINAL COMPANY. 

Owning freight yards, passenger and freight terminals and 
rights of way in Spokane. 


SPOKANE & INLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. 

An electric railway in course of construction, to be operated 
between Spokane and Colfax, Washington, and 
Moscow, Idaho. 

LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER. 

Two valuable power sites on the Spokane river, and other 
real estate in the city and county of Spokane; also 
a franchise for the distribution of electricity. 


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The entire holdings of the above named companies, with the exception of the Spokane & Inland Railway (of which 95 per cent 
of the stock has been acquired, and it is expected the remainder will be secured), are held by the 

Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Company of Spokane. 




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PHOTOGRAPHS 
BY T. W. TOLMAN 

PRINTING 
BY INLAND PRINTING CO. 



The Spokane Traction Company. 


This company was incorporated March 15, 1903, and 
began operations November 13 the same year. Material 
additions have been made each season until at the present 
time 25 miles of city lines are operated and a five mile 
extension is projected to Hillyard, a suburb of 5,000 
inhabitants. All issued stock of this company is now 
owned by the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad. 

Statistics show that Spokane has doubled in popula¬ 
tion since 1900. This remarkable growth of the city 
affords the Traction Company an unusual opportunity 
for increasing mileage and its lines are being steadily 
extended into the new and fast growing sections. Four 
of the city’s public parks are directly reached as well as 
all passenger depots of the steam roads. Three of Spo¬ 
kane’s principal colleges are served and the city lines are 
also instrumental in collecting passengers for the inter- 
urban divisions of the Spokane & Inland Empire System. 

With Spokane forging steadily ahead it can be seen 
that the opportunity for growth and a constant increase 
of earnings for the Traction Company are assured. 



MAP OF SPOKANE TRACTION COMPANY’S LINES 



























Spokane Traction Equipment. 



SPOKANE TRACTION CAR BARN 
120 FT. BY 200 FT. 

CAPACITY, 40 CARS. 


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Spokane a Growing City. 


COURT 

HOUSE 



CARNEGIE 

LIBRARY 




POPULATION 

1900.36,848 

1906. 85,000 

SCHOOL CENSUS 

1900... 7,639 

1906.14,049 

ASSESSED VALUATION 

1900..........*. $19,479,232 

1906. 36,115,412 

BANK DEPOSITS 

1900.....$ 7,284,000 

1906... 20,000,000 


BANK CLEARANCES 

1900.....$ 56,254,730 

1905. 164,099,042 

POSTAL RECEIPTS 

1900......$ 92,280 

1905_ 201,887 

BUILDING PERMITS 

1900..'.__$1,254,296 

1905... 3,903,908 




CITY 

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Spokane, Population 85,000 



BIRDSEYE VIEW OF 
SPOKANE 




Spokane manufactured 
home products in 1905 
amounting to $10,105,000. 

Spokane’s real estate 
transfers in 1905 were 
$12,121,709. 

Spokane is the commercial and distributing center of tfi& Inland 
a territory three times the area of the New England states. 


$13,000,000 have been ex¬ 
pended for buildings in Spo¬ 
kane since 1900. 


EASTERN PORTION OF SPOKANE AS SEEN FROM 
THE SPOKANE 4. INLAND LINE 











Spok ane Has ^Model Schools 



WEBSTER SCHOOL 


$2,000,000 are invested in modern school and college 
buildings in Spokane. 

Spokane has twenty-two model public schools, six colleges 
and five private schools. 








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Beautiful 






LIBERTY PARK 



Of a total of six, four of Spokane’s 
city parks are directly reached by the 
Traction Company’s lines. Spokane 
has 175 acres of city parks. 



RECREATION 


CORBIN PARK 







Principal Parks in Spokane 



Manito is Spokane’s largest 
and most attractive park 
is situated on the south blu 
feet above the city. The park has an 
area of 95 acres, about half of which is 
within the mile and a half circle. The addi¬ 
tion surrounding Manito is building rapidly 
owing to natural advantages and the excellent street 
car service furnished by the Spokane Traction Company, 
whose line is the only one reaching this section of the city. 













Equipment of Coeur d Alene & Spokane Railway 


Annual cut of lumber on 



THE “SHOSHONE FLYER ON THE COEUR D’ALENE &. SPOKANE RAILWAY 


The rolling stock of this road consists of 16 modern 
first class Brill coaches, 7 of which are combination bag¬ 
gage and passenger cars, equipped with Westinghouse 
motors, geared for a speed of 65 miles per hour, multiple 
and unit control, automatic and straight air brakes; 
2 motor equipped box freight cars, 1 steam locomotive, 
20 standard 80,000 pound capacity box cars and 50 stand¬ 
ard 80,000 pound capacity flat cars. 

An extensive storage battery and booster system has 
been installed at different points on the line which makes 
a very material saving in operation. The installation 
consists of five 300-cell storage batteries and three 
booster stations. 


Coeur d’Alene lake, 30,000,000 
feet. Annual cut of lumber on 
St. Joe and St. Maries riversp 
100,000,000 feet. 





Coeur d Alene & Spokane Rail 

Began operating December 28, 1903, between 
Spokane, Wash., and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a dis¬ 
tance of 34 miles. An eight mile extension to 
Hayden Lake has been added this season and opened 
on August 15. This road is the most direct line 
from Spokane to the famous Coeur d’Alene mining 
district, steamers being taken at Coeur d’Alene for 
Harrison, where connection is made with the O. R. 
& N. R. R. 85,000 prosperous citizens also find it 
their chief route for recreation to the magnificent 
chain of lakes lying to the east of Spokane. 

In the fertile Spokane Valley, through which the 
road passes, diversified farming is growing apace, 
adding materially each year to freight and passenger 
traffic. 

An extension of 2^2 miles from the main line to 
Liberty Lake is now being surveyed and will prob- 
ablv be built for next season. Also an extension 
of about 14 miles from Hayden Lake to Lake Pend 
d’Oreille will be built and in operation for the 
season of 1907. 

The Coeur d’Alene & Spokane Railway has made 
a remarkable record since its first inception, and 
with two more of the most beautiful lakes about 
Spokane added to its list of summer resorts and 
continued activity in the Coeur d’Alene mining 
country, a constant increase in earnings is assured. 





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Spokane Electric Terminal, erected in 1906, at a cost of 
$100,000; 50 feet by 160 feet; contains general offices of the 
Inland Empire Railway system, and is passenger and ex¬ 
press terminal for Coeur d’Alene & Spokane Railway and 
Spokane & Inland Railway. It will also furnish terminal 
facilities for such other lines as the Spokane & Inland 
Empire Company may build. The terminal is centrally 
located in block adjoining site selected for the city’s new 
Federal building and postoffice. 

Private telephones of the most improved type are 
utilized in operating all Spokane & Inland Empire lines. 
In nearly three years of operation on the Coeur d’Alene 
division not a single accident, even of a car jumping the 
track, has occurred. 


Terminals of tlie Coeur d Alene^Lme 


Coeur d’Alene Electric Terminal, located on lake front, 
with valuable passenger and freight docks. Division car 
barns and machine shops are also located at this point. 
Coeur d’Alene has six times the population it had in 1903 
when the Coeur d’Alene & Spokane electric railway was 
opened. The city has paved streets, sewer and water 
systems, six hotels, one of which cost $100,000. 








Coeur cl Alene City and View of Its Chief Industry. 



B. R. LEWIS LUMBER CO.’S PLANT, COEUR D’ALENE. CAPACITY, 
75,000,000 FEET PER ANNUM. 


Coeur d’Alene’s population 
in 1903, when C. d’A. & S. elec¬ 
tric line opened, was 1,000, and is 
now 6,000. The city has six large lum¬ 
ber mills and eight other lumber companies, 
among whom is the Weyerhauser Syndicate. 


Owing to its excellent 
transportation facilities and 
hotels, Coeur d’Alene has be¬ 
come the convention city of 
Idaho. One daily and two 
weekly newspapers are pub¬ 
lished at Coeur d’Alene. 


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oeur d Alene. 



This park of 20 acres is 
located directly on the lake 
front and is a very popular 
place for tourists and pleasure seekers. 
Round trip fare from Spokane, $1.00. The 
club houses of the Coeur d’Alene Boat club of 
Spokane are located adjoining this point on the lake. 







Principal Cities on Upper Coeur d Alene Lake 
and St. Joe River. 


Harrison, at mouth of Coeur d’Alene river, on Lake Coeur 
d’Alene. Lumber town; population, 1,200. Steamers from 
Coeur d’Alene connect here with the O. R. & N. for all points 
in Coeur d’Alene mining country. 


PANORAMA OF HARRISON 


St. Maries, at junction of St. 

Joe and St. Maries rivers. 

Lumber town; population, 900. 

The fall in the St. Joe river 
from St. Joe, twenty miles 
above St. Maries at head of navi¬ 
gation, to Coeur d’Alene lake is less 
than two feet and accounts for the 
placid surface and magnificent reflections. 


PANORAMA OF 
ST. MARIES 


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For perfect reflections of trees, banks and surrounding 
mountains, the St. Joe river has few, if any, equals in the world. 
This beautiful shadowy stream attracts thousands of tourists 
and pleasure seekers annually via the Coeur d’Alene & 


Spokane Railway and connecting steamers. It is also the 
chief outing place for hundreds of prosperous “Palousers” 
from Whitman County, who camp there through the summer 
months. 















Other Lakes on the Coeur d Alene 
& Spohane Railway. 


Hayden Lake lies 8 miles 
north of Coeur d’Alene 
and is one of the most 
charming resorts about 
Spokane. Extension to 
this lake was opened on 
August 15th. Fare $1.45 
round trip from Spokane. 


PEND D OREILLE' 


Liberty Lake is 
situated 2 y 2 miles 
from main line of the 
C. d’A. & S. Ry. An 
extension to the lake 
is now surveyed and 
will probably be con¬ 
structed and in oper¬ 
ation for season of 
1907. 

Pend d’Oreille, the 
largest and most 
beautiful of the Spo¬ 
kane lakes, is a great 
inland sea, 65 miles 
in length, the south¬ 
ern portion of which reaches to within 14 miles 
of Hayden. The lake has immense lumber and 
mining interests. The Coeur d’Alene & Spokane 
Railway will be extended to the southern end of 
Pend d’Oreille next season. 





Freight Traffic 
on Coeur d Alene 6^ 
Spokane Railway. 


All the logs for this mill come from Coeur 
d’Alene via C. d’A. & S. Railway’s steam train. The 
mill has a daily output of 150,000 feet, the greater 
portion of which goes to markets in the central and 
eastern states. The accompanying illustration 
shows log train loading on the dock at Coeur 
d’Alene. 


McGOLDRICK LUMBER 


MILL, LOCATED AT SPOKANE 


WHERE LAKE AND 



















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Scenes at Spokane Electric Ter¬ 
minal, showing eagerness of peo¬ 
ple to visit the lakes reached by 
the Coeur d’Alene & Spokane 
Railway. 


On July 4th, 9,500 passengers 
were carried over the line. Forty- 
two trains were dispatched each 
way and no train was over 1 hour 
and 20 minutes making the 34 
mile run, or was delayed over 5 
minutes at meeting points. 


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Scene on Coeur d’Alene & Spo¬ 
kane Railway Co.’s dock at Coeur 
d’Alene where connection is made 
with the Red Collar steamship 
line for Harrison, St. Maries and 
St. Joe, and all points on St. Joe 
river. 










Spokane & Inland Construction. 



The Spokane & Inland roadbed and electrical equipment 
is the best throughout. 70-lb. steel is laid on fir ties and gravel 
ballasted. The overhead construction is the single caternary, 
with 7-16 steel messenger wire and adjustable clipped trolley. 
The system used on the Spokane & Inland is the single phase, 
alternating current out of town and direct current in Spokane. 
Motors are adapted for either current. 



Frequency Changing Station, located on the S. & I., leading 
out of Spokane, and used by this road for transforming current 
and as a storage battery and booster station similar to those 
used on the C. d’A. & S. Ry. The station contains four motor 
generator sets, four 1250 k. w. transformers, three 375 k. w. 
transformers and three 75 k. w. transformers; also 550 volt 
(275 cell) storage battery with switchboard, booster and 
exciter attachments. 











Spokane & Inland Railway. 


The Spokane & Inland Railway Company was incorporated 
December 15, 1904, for the purpose of building and operating an 
electric freight and passenger railway from Spokane to Colfax and 
Palouse in Whitman County, Washington, and to Moscow, Idaho. 
This road is now completed and in operation to Waverly, a distance 
of 34 miles from Spokane. At Spring Valley Junction, 40 miles from 
Spokane, the road forks, one arm going to Rosalia, Thornton and 
Colfax, and the other extending into Oakesdale, Garfield and Palouse. 

The distance over the western division from Spokane to Colfax 
is 70.0 miles, while the distance from Spokane to Palouse is 76.8 
miles. The grading on both divisions is now completed and freight 
and passenger service will be installed by January 1st, ’07, making 
the total mileage of the Spokane & Inland 113 miles. 

Upon completion of the lines to Colfax and Palouse, it is pro¬ 
posed to continue on to Pullman and Moscow and the following 
year to Lewiston on the Snake river. Right of way terminals have 
been secured for the Moscow extension and right of way is now 
being obtained into Pullman and also from Moscow to Lewiston. 

These additional extensions will approximate 99 miles and when 
completed will make the Spokane & Inland Railway about 212 miles 
in length and the several divisions of the Spokane & Inland Empire 
system 285 miles. 



MAP OF SPOKANE AND INLAND RAILWAY 















Spokane & Inland Rolling St ock. 



Brill coaches, similar to those on the C. d’A. 
& S. Ry., are used on the Spokane & Inland. 

Electric locomotives used on the Spokane 
& Inland were manufactured by Westinghouse 
Electric company. The engines consist of two 
sections weighing complete 100 tons and using 
1200 h. p. They are known as the single phase 
alternating current type for direct or alternat¬ 
ing current and are similar to locomotives used 
on the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Coupled to¬ 
gether they will haul 20 loaded box cars. 


CAR BARN 




S. & I. car barns and machine shops at Spokane, 
92 by 200 feet. Capacity, 20 cars. 


FREIGHT ENGINE 

















The Spokane & Inland s Territory. 


The Pacific Northwest has become world famous for its 
wonderful agricultural productiveness, its perfect climate and 
entire freedom from crop failures. The best in the Northwest 
is the productive “Palouse” country, Whitman and Latah 
counties. The former is the banner agricultural county of 
Washington, and the latter leads in a like manner in Idaho. 
These counties produce the greatest number of bushels of 


350,000 acres, or fully 75 per cent of the tillable land of 
Latah county, is now being cultivated, 250,000 acres of the 
remainder being valuable timber lands. 

In Spokane county there are over 100,000 acres of magnifi¬ 
cent orchards, grain fields, and dairy farms directly tributary 
to the Spokane & Inland Railway, many of the larger tracts 
being divided for orchards and market gardening which will 



wheat, oats, barley and potatoes per acre in their respective 
states, and Washington and Idaho, as shown by statistics of 
the Department of Agriculture, head the United States. Whit¬ 
man also stands first in live stock in this state. 896,885 acres, 
or over 80 per cent of the tillable soil in Whitman county, is 
now under cultivation. The Spokane & Inland intersects this 
mammoth garden spot, not with one railway line, but with 
two, and reaches, with a few exceptions, all the principal towns 
of the county. 


add very materially to the tributary population and tonnage. 

The proposed extension to Lewiston will pass through one 
of the most productive fruit sections of the Northwest, besides 
making water connections with the coast via the Snake and 
Columbia rivers. 

The population in southern Spokane county tributary to 
the Spokane & Inland, together with that of Whitman and 
Latah counties, is fully twice the population directly tribu¬ 
tary to the Coeur d’Alene & Spokane Railway. 





Principal Towns on 


the Spokane y Inland. 

The residents of Whitman 
and Latah counties are known 
as “Palousers” and are as 
frugal, industrious and pro¬ 
gressive a class of agricultur¬ 
ists as can be found anywhere 
d in the United States. 

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ROSALIA 


ROSALIA 

Population, 1,000. Bank deposits, $300,- 
000. Ships out 1,300 carloads of grain, live 
stock, fruits and produce annually. The 
growing of sugar beets is becoming a 
feature about Rosalia, the product being 
shipped via the Spokane & Inland to the 
Waverly sugar factory. 

OAKESDALE 

Population, 1,500. Grain and fruit shipping point. Has 18 grain warehouses 
in town and at nearby stations, and ships one million bushels of wheat annually. 
Outfitted 13 combined harvesters and nearly 100 binders this season. 

Hanford Nurseries, the largest in eastern Washington, are located at this 
point. 

















Principal Towns on the Spokane 


& Inland. 



GARFIELD 

Population, 1,200. Shipped 400,- 
000 bushels of wheat and oats last 
year; is also extensive shipping 
point for fruits, vegetables and 
live stock. 


PALOUSE 

The “Dinner Pail City,” with 
pay roll of $100,000 per month. 

Population, 2,800. Has flour mills, 
pottery plant and lumber mill 
with daily output of 120,000 feet. 

Is terminal for Washington, Idaho 
& Montana Railway, which taps 
the greatest body of white pine in the world. The Spokane & Inland 
Railway connects with the Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway at 
this point. 18,000 tons of grain are shipped annually from this place. 










POPULATION, 85,000. 


SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 












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METROPOLIS OF THE 


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Principal Towns on Spokane & Inland. 




Pullman has a population of 2,594, and an assessed valua¬ 
tion of $567,875. The State Agricultural College is located 
at this point with enrollment of 1,000 students. The town is 
in the heart of the grain and fruit belt and is an extensive 
shipper; $200,000 worth of fruit is marketed annually within 
a radius of a few miles of Pullman. 



Colfax, ^Vhitman County Seat. 




One of the Spokane & Inland’s southern terminals. 
Population, 3,500. Bank deposits, $2,000,000. A 
manufacturing and distributing point. Ships out 
2,000 cars grain, hay, live stock, fruits, vegeta¬ 
bles and flour annually. Assessed valuation 
of city, $1,207,000; county, $22,151,938. 


MAIN STREET, COLFAX 


















Moscow 


Idaho 






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Latah and has a population of 6,000. View' 

taken from grounds of University of Idaho, which 

is located there. Terminals and right of way for 

the Spokane & Inland road have been secured at this point. 





Industries on the Spokane & Inland. 



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Plant of the Washington Brick, Lime & Mfg. 
Company at Freeman. Daily output 200 tons. 

This company also has extensive lime works 
at Lake Pend d’Oreille, to which point the Coeur 
d’Alene & Spokane Railway will be extended 
next year. 

General offices and warehouse are located in 
Spokane. 



Washington State Sugar Co.’s factory at 
Waverly uses 20,000 tons of sugar beets 
raised along the Spokane & Inland and 
Coeur d’Alene railways. Consumes about 
6,000 tons coal, 600 tons coke and 2,500 tons 
lime rock annually. Ships out 10,000 tons 
of beet pulp for dairy use and has annual 
capacity of 6,000,000 pounds sugar. 







Big Traffic Makers in Palouse. 




Panorama shows Potlatch Lumber Company’s mill at 
Palouse with Spokane & Inland roadbed from Garfield to the 
right and grade for Y to the left. This mill has a daily 
output of 120,000 feet. The Potlatch mill, located ten miles 
east on the Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway, is the 
largest modern plant under'one roof in the world. Capacity, 


700,000 feet daily. The annual output of these mills aggregates 
240,000,000 feet. The Spokane & Inland Railway and the 
Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway own joint freight 
and transfer yards for exchange of business. The export and 
import freight of the Potlatch Company alone aggregates 
10,000 carloads annually. 


POTLATCH LUMBER CO.'S MILL AT POTLATCH, IDAHO 


Plalouse is the western terminal of the Washington, Idaho & 
Montana railroad and is the only gateway for the rich farming 
and lumbering section extending 100 miles east in Latah County 
to the Bitter Root mountains. 


POTLATCH 

LUMBER COMPANY’S 
PLANT AT PALOUSE, WASH. 







Harvesting Scenes on the Spokane & Inland Railway 




The Spokane & Inland intersects the most pro¬ 
ductive grain belt in the United States. Whitman 
and Latah counties produce one-third of the entire 
wheat output of Washington and Idaho. 




COMBINED HARVESTER IN OPERATION 














Views on Spokane & Inland Railway. 





WHITMAN COUNTY BANKS. 

There are 24 National and State 
banks in Whitman Comity, with aggre¬ 
gate deposits of $4,000,000. 


WHITMAN COUNTY YIELDS. 

Yields of 65 bushels of Wheat to the acre, 120 
bushels of Oats, 80 bushels of Barley and 300 bush¬ 
els of Potatoes are common in Whitman County. 

For nearly 100 miles the Spokane & Inland Rail¬ 
way intersects the richest orchards and grain fields 
in the Northwest. 



EVERGREEN STATE FRUIT RANCH. 

Illustration shows Spokane & Inland road cutting 
directly through the fruit section of southern Spokane 
County. This ranch alone produced 15,000 boxes apples, 
200 boxes cherries and 300 boxes pears last season. 















LATAH COUNTY 
FARM 


Typical Palouse farm on right of way, Moscow 
extension, Spokane & Inland Railway. 


The Spokane & Inland is shown intersecting a 
portion of an immense potato field. Nearly 5,000,000 
bushels of potatoes were produced in this section 
last year. The average yield in Whitman County 
is 150 bushels per acre, but yields of 300 and 400 
bushels per acre are common. 



CROSSING THE MAMMOTH GARDEN SPOT. 










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Power for the System. 

The Spokane & Inland Empire Company owns 
two power sites on the Spokane River capable of 
developing 25,000 h. p. The “Bowl and Pitcher” 
site is located just at the city limits, while the 
second site is at Nine Mile Bridge. The latter is 
now being developed, a plant capable of generating 
12,000 electrical horse power being installed. The 
location at this point is ideal owing to the narrow¬ 
ness and rocky formation of the canyon. A lake 
five miles in length is made by the dam and is 
useful to the power development in regulating the 
flow of water. 

At present the Spokane & Inland Empire Com¬ 
pany obtains power for its lines from a local com¬ 
pany under a ten years’ contract for 24 hour service 
at the rate of $20 per h. p. per annum. 






Spokane Terminal C 


ompany. 


This company was incor¬ 
porated March 1, 1905, for 
the purpose of acquiring 
freight and passenger termi¬ 
nals, right of way entrance 
to the city, freight yards and 
grounds for car barns and 
machine shops. The passen¬ 
ger terminal at Main and 
Lincoln streets was complet¬ 
ed early in 1906. Union tick¬ 
et offices, passenger, bag¬ 
gage and express rooms oc¬ 
cupy the ground floor, while 
in the second and third stor¬ 
ies are located the offices of 
the several divisions of the 
Spokane & Inland Empire 
system. The grounds at this 
terminal are about 380 feet 
by 600 feet and are located in 
the heart of the city and in 



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INTERIOR SPOKANE ELECTRIC TERMINAL 


the block adjoining the loca¬ 
tion selected for the city’s 
new Federal building and 
postofifice. 

The freight depot and 
yards are about 300 feet by 
2,000 feet and are centrally 
located between the Great 
Northern and Northern Pa¬ 
cific freight yards and are 
connected by transfer tracks 
with all steam roads entering 
Spokane. 

Sufficient grounds for car 
barns and machine shops of 
the various lines are also 
owned, comprising about 17 
acres. 

The entire stock issue of 
this company has been pur¬ 
chased by the Spokane & In¬ 
land Empire Railroad Com¬ 
pany. 








Right of Way Entrance to Spokane. 



Constructed to carry 200 ton locomotives. 
Bridge No. 1 is double tracked and has two 
150 ft. spans and one 100 ft. span. Bridge 
No. 2 is single track and has three 125 ft. 




spans. 






Union Freight Depot. 



MAP OF SPOKANE TERMINALS, YARDS AND RIGHT OF WAY. 






















The C ountry s 
Resources. 





WHEAT HARVESTING SCENE NEAR PULLMAN 


COMPARATIVE YIELDS 

AVERAGE NUMBER BUSHELS PER ACRE 


United States.. 

Idaho..... 

W ashington. 

Whitman County 


Wheat 

Oats 

14.3 

34.0 

18.6 

39.4 

24.6 

50.0 

28.0 

55.0 


Barley 

Potatoes 

26.8 

87 

40.0 

140 

40.0 

142 

40.0 

150 


In Latah County 50 bushels of wheat per acre is a common 
yield. C. Clark harvested this season an average of 64 bushels 
of wheat per acre; Wm. Bonner 50 bushels per acre; J. K. 
Stevenson 56 bushels per acre; Marsh Carlton 53 bushels per 
acre. 

“The Best in the Northwest is the Productive Palouse— 
Whitman and Latah Counties”—reached by the Spokane & 
Inland Ry. 












One of the rich valleys on the Spokane 
& Inland near Steptoe. The grade of the 
new railway can be seen crossing the 
entire length of the field. 


Rolling hills, golden with grain, as far 
as the eye can reach. Roadbed for the 
Spokane & Inland in the foreground. 



ON GRADE OF THE 

SPOKANE INLAND. 


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^Vheat Blockades 





Owing to the inadequacy of present railroad 
facilities, wheat blockades occur every year at the 
principal shipping points in Whitman County. 


Ninety-seven per cent of the 
farming lands lying directly 
tributary to the Spokane & Inland 
Railway are already under cultivation. 


BLOCKADE AT THORNTON 


Wheat blockade at Thornton, on the Spokane & 
Inland, the largest grain shipping point in Whitman 
County. 



















Building the Spokane & Ini and. 


SCENES 

NORTH 

OF GARFIELD 



A HINDRANCE AND A HELP 

The new railroad cuts in two 
the great wheat fields, but will 
help market the crop. 































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An irrigated district in the Spokane \ alley on 
the Coeur d’Alene & Spokane Railway. One ten 
acre tract at Opportunity yielded 3,000 boxes of 
apples this year. 2,000 boxes of tomatoes to the acre were 
also grown at this point, and cucumbers yielded $200 per acre. 


Orchard Scenes on the Inland 

Empire Lines. 

One of the richest non-irrigated orchard sections of 
Eastern Washington is intersected by the Spokane & 
Inland Railway. An orchard on this line produced 15,000 
boxes of apples, 200 boxes of cherries and 300 boxes of 
pears this year. The Ellis orchard on Moran Prairie 
yielded 25,000 boxes of apples. 



OPPORTUNITY ORCHARD. 






Scenes from the “ Garden Spot. 

COLFAX “SPUDS” 



Sugar beets at McGuires station, on 
the Coeur d’Alene & Spokane line, are 
shipped to the sugar beet factory on the 
Spokane & Inland at Waverly. The 
beets here shown were grown under 
irrigation and averaged 15 tons per acre. 
2,000 acres at this point will be brought 
under irrigation next season and planted 
to sugar beets. 


SUGAR BEETS ON COEUR D’ALENE & SPOKANE RAILWAY 









Wonders of Irrigation 


‘'Greenacres” irrigated district on the Coeur d’Alene 
& Spokane Railway. One acre of ground produced 
4,000 watermelons this year. From 550 dewberry 
plants, 3 year olds, were grown $660 worth of berries 
this season. 


“Greenacres” cantaloupes average from 300 to 400 
crates per acre. Strawberries, first crop from plants, 
ran 300 crates per acre this year and sold for $3 per 
crate. 







From Dairying, $7,500,000. 



Dairying and live stock raising are in¬ 
dustries that are making rapid strides in 
the Inland Empire. No less than 12 dairies 
have been organized the past year in the 
surrounding country. In Spokane there 
are ten dairy companies, one of these, 
The Hazelwood Company, is the largest 
in the northwest and has an output of 
$750,000 annually. 


The express business, which includes milk, on this 
line has increased over 500 per cent in two years. The 
milk and cream shipped from Spokane Bridge station 
along during June, July, August and September, 1906, 
amounted to 394,000 lbs. The same opportunity for 
development in dairying is open to farmers on the 
Spokane & Inland Railway. 


















As a resource in the Inland Empire, mining stands second 
only to agriculture. To the famous silver-lead mines of the 
Coeur d’Alenes and the copper-gold mines of the Boundary 
may be credited a goodly portion of the capital that has been 
invested in Spokane enterprises. The Coeur d’Alene district, 
100 miles to the east in northern Idaho, is producing 60 per 
cent of the desilverized lead ores mined in the United States 
and in 1905 paid upward of 
$6,000,000 in dividends. The 
annual output of this dis¬ 
trict exceeds $20,000,000. 

Over 3,000 miners are em¬ 
ployed, at an average 
wage of $3.60 per day and 
a total annual payroll of 
$4,000,000. 

The Coeur d’Alenes lie 
directly tributary to Spo¬ 
kane, the shortest route be¬ 
ing via the “Shoshone Flye 
which leaves Spokane at 
every morning over the 
d’Alene & Spokane Railway, 
at 6 :30 in the evening. The 1 | 
from such a rich mining district is necessarily heavy and ac¬ 
counts in no small way for the exceptional showing that is 
being made by the Coeur d’Alene & Spokane Railway. 





7:50 
Coeur 
returning 
raffic to and 


GRANBY 

CONSOLIDATED 

SMELTER 


$40,000,000 from Mines. 



Within 150 miles to the north of Spokane there are six 
smelters in operation which treated 941,817 tons of ore in 
1905 and had a gross output of $15,000,000. The combined 
output of the Boundary district aggregates $20,000,000 annu¬ 
ally. The Granby mine at Phoenix, B. C., produces more than 
one-half of the entire Boundary output and has made net 
profits the past year of $1,823,617. 

The Granby Consolidated Smelter is 
owned and operated by the Granby 
Consolidated Mining, Smelting 
and Power Co., Ltd. This 
smelter treated 549,703 
tons of ore last year and 
has a capacity of 30,000,- 
000 pounds of copper per 
annum. For the year end- 
ing June 30th, 1906, it pro¬ 
duced 20.000,000 pounds 
of copper and is now treat¬ 
ing 2,700 tons of ore daily. 
Marble, Granite, Clay .—As if 
cipating the location and needs 
of the future metropolis of the Inland 
Empire, Nature has left within a radius of 
100 miles, immense deposits of marble, granite, clay and lime 
in Stevens, Whitman, Kootenai and Spokane counties, all of 
which contribute toward making Spokane a prosperous as well 
as a model built city. 





Scenes m the Coeur d Alenes. 

The Bunker Hill-Sullivan property is now the greatest silver-lead 
producer in the world. It paid over $3,000,000 in dividends in 1905. 


MILO CREEK GULCH 

Showing “Last Chance” mine at 
Wardner, property of the Federal 
Mining and Smelting Co. The five 
mines owned by this company pro¬ 
duced 875,000 tons of silver-lead ore 
in 1905, values in silver and lead, 
$6,750,000. 


Shoshone County seat, 
has population of 3,500 
and is the principal 
distributing point for 
Coeur d’Alene mines. 


WALLACE 







LOGGING ON THE ST. JOE RIVER 



Showing view of the famous 
80,000,000 ft. log drive. The annual 
cut of lumber on the St. Joe and St. 
Maries rivers is 100,000,000 feet. 


When it is known that 23,165 square miles, or 36 per cent of the 
entire area of the state of Washington is covered with merchantable 
timber, some idea may be had of lumber as a resource in the Inland 
Empire. Eastern Washington alone has 14,126 square miles of 
merchantable timber, while in northern Idaho is located the laigest 
body of white pine in the world. 

The great lumber companies in the central states, for lack of 
further supply there, are rapidly locating in the Spokane country. 
Already the forests resound to the hum of over 300 sawmills which 
will have an output this year exceeding 750,000,000 feet. Augmented 
by the great Potlatch Lumber Company’s mill with its product of 
200,000,000 feet, the output of this section will aggregate a billion 
feet the coming season. 

It will be noticed that the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad 
lines are so laid that a share of the enormous traffic from the mills of 
northern Idaho will be secured both on the Coeur d’Alene and the 
Spokane & Inland divisions. 


Lumber, the Third Resource 



THE LARGEST BODY OF WHITE PINE IN THE WORLD 









The Country Bek md the Enterprise. 



Ivin l W ,Yin V ” £ P acifi c Northwest, the portions of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia 

} i g c S • If d ^ f 2 °, mi . es ° f b P okane are known as' the “Inland Empire.” Spokane, the chief citv between St. Paul 
that of^h^New^EnglarulStates commercia ’ as wel1 as the geographical, center of this rich territory with an area three times 

Into this vast basin of the Columbia river and its tributaries, Nature 
has poured a bountiful variety of agricultural resources. Protected by 
the Rockies on the east and the Cascades to the west, this veritable garden 
spot has proven as fertile and productive as any in the United States. 

With its mild winters and perfect summer climate it has come to be 
known as the “Sure Crop” country. The lasting fertility of the soil is 
proven by instances of wheat raising in eastern" Washington extending 
over a period of forty years with yields of never less than 35 bushels of 
grain per acre. 

For centuries the giant forests of pine, cedar, fir, hemlock, spruce 
and larch have been developing to serve the needs of the 20th Century 
inhabitants of this Inland Empire as well as to replenish the waning sup¬ 
ply of lumber in the eastern states. 

In the hills and valleys of the Spokane country, Nature has left vast 
deposits of marble, granite and clay for the builders’ use, while in the 
mountains surrounding the whole is stored boundless wealth in gold, sil¬ 
ver, copper and lead mines. 

There are sections of the United States where agriculture is the main 
resource; there are other sections dependent upon mining or lumbering. 

The Inland Empire is blessed with all these and more. For seemingly 
fearful of the lack of good measure, Nature lias provided gigantic water 
powers on the Spokane, Columbia, Pend d’Oreille, Chelan and Kettle rivers, 
aggregating greater than Niagara, to lend aid in the development of min¬ 
ing, lumbering, irrigation, power for manufacturing and for electric rail¬ 
ways. 

Further information regarding the varied resources of this section of 
the Pacific Northwest, as well as financial details of the Spokane & Inland 
Empire Railroad system, will be cheerfully furnished by Wm. G. Davidson, 

Secretary, Terminal Building, Spokane, Wash., or Levi G. Monroe, Secre¬ 
tary, Spokane Chamber of Commerce. 


THE INLAND EMPIRE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 















IN THE LEWISTON COUNTRY, TOWARD WHICH THE SPOKANE &. INLAND RAILWAY 
IS BUILDING, STOCK RAISING IS AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. 













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